The Mysteries releases on October 10 and is now available for pre-order. The story unfolds over 72 pages filled with compelling black-and-white illustrations. Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate-a mysterious process in its own right.” “For the book’s illustrations, Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration. Years later, a single battered knight returns.“ via Simon & Schuster Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. “From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding calamities. The official blurb paints the picture of a cursed land in need of a hero. The author’s new book, The Mysteries, was created with caricaturist John Kascht. The pair has been working on the The Mysteries for several years behind the scenes. This is his largest work since retiring in 1995. Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995, with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in the medium. He’s put out some one-off comics and illustrations in those years. William Boyd Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. At the time he stated he felt he’d achieved all he could with the medium. Over two decades have passed since Bill Watterson closed the book on his beloved Calvin & Hobbescomic. Legendary cartoonist Bill Watterson has come out of retirement to tell a dark fable that hits shelves this October.
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